IBIS CONFERENCE

Hidden Histories: Revisiting the Spirit of 1913

Session One: Setting the Context9:30 - 11:00Chair: Paul Gillespie

Myrtle Hill: What did Women Want? Female Activism in a Decade of DisruptionPaddy Smyth: Title TBCJohn Cunningham: ‘The workers are getting an insolent manner of late’: Labour in the West, c 1913Peter Collins: The Dublin Lockout – The View from the North

Coffee Break

11:00-11:15

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‘Living the Lockout’ performed by Laura Murray

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Session Two: Positions and Personas11:30 - 1:00Chair: Bronagh Hinds

Ida Milne: Lockout 1913: Public Events, Private LivesMargaret Ward: Militant militants: Hanna and Frank Sheehy Skeffington and the Cause of Women and the Cause of LabourAngelina Cox: Rosie Hackett: The Rediscovery of a Forgotten HistoryFelix Larkin: Hidden Lives of William Martin Murphy